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by tdrp 6y ago
By the way how do you detect VPN traffic? For tor we just pick up the list of exit nodes but we've had trouble identifying VPN without using a 3rd party API.
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by tdrp 6y ago
It seems some of the decision hinged around this fact from the article: "self-inflicted wounds are not irreparable injury". I wonder if there could have been a better sequence of events (e.g. sue first rather than sneaking it in)?
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by tdrp 6y ago
You would think a developer accused of something as serious as _fraud_ would have their apps at least removed from the app store... this whole thing is a little odd.
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by tdrp 6y ago
His app opens fine for me: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/attics/id1434981632 Does it normally disappear if a dev account is terminated?
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by tdrp 6y ago
Plus these games were pre-internet so when you got stuck or lost somewhere you got really stuck. I remember spending over a month looking for something called "the hall of the mountain king" in ultima 8, to the point that I had ha
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by tdrp 6y ago
Not a lawyer but what does "conceal" mean when it comes to websites like forums? You often see probably illegal stuff show up on popular forums and they eventually get banned/removed by moderators. Does that mean the moderato
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by tdrp 6y ago
This. Some people seem to be on the "Apple deserves a cut of 30% because they run the app store and 30% is reasonable etc." but what if tomorrow Apple just said: "OK we've bumped up the 30% to 90%". The exact same s
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by tdrp 6y ago
Seriously. We generally release most of our new features at 10% of the users and then gradually increase the percentage on the server end. If there's any issue we can turn it off immediately rather than potentially waiting days for the
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by tdrp 6y ago
They do, but a lot of the social good companies are not actually non-profits but more like low-profit/high-impact, or B-corp style. In fact a few states have Benefit Corp/Social Purpose Company LLC-like structures. So it puts you
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by tdrp 6y ago
I wouldn't call it a waste of time but it did feel like it was targeted more towards very early-stage start-ups, and was probably helpful mostly to them. If you have some kind of traction and experience, the video conferences felt pret
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by tdrp 6y ago
According to this TC article, it's basically illegal for a company to pay the ransom: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-s... I sort of agree with that since if companies start pa
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by tdrp 6y ago
I think most tech founders are more than capable of getting a decent paying engineering corporate job if they choose to do so. The problem (at least for me, who started off in FAANG initially) is that the longer you're in the start-up
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by tdrp 6y ago
Only slightly related, but back when GDPR was first enacted I mentioned that it would inadvertently open up some vulnerabilities and that it should have been reviewed by white hat security researchers. - "Download all my data" was
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by tdrp 6y ago
IIRC he allegedly also tried to wipe all evidence of it which is why it was hard to prove. So it seems he knew what he was doing.
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by tdrp 6y ago
Here's his own quote: "I downloaded this file with the intent to use it for the benefit of someone other than Google," https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-self-dr...
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by tdrp 6y ago
As I mentioned in a different thread, I love it because it's so stable. There's no constant shaking or rocking, and you don't get woken up every 5 minutes by random minor turbulence - it just powers through it like the beast
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by tdrp 6y ago
Since nobody's mentioned it yet: I find they feel very stable in turbulence. I used to do the SFO-Europe route 10-12 times a year and whenever we were on an A330 and encountered even mild turbulence the food would end up on our face an
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by tdrp 6y ago
I was rejected for one a couple of months ago even though I could have paid it in cash a few times over. They really don't like start-ups that don't have super regular income flows, and really don't look at much else if that
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by tdrp 6y ago
I mean you can store EU users' data on an EU server but if any US users are allowed to communicate/look at EU users then obviously the data is going to travel across the ocean. Maybe I'm reading too much into what constitutes
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by tdrp 6y ago
Is there some kind of "we are in the EU and understand our data will be stored in the US and can be surveilled" consent box? What about platforms that connect people from all over the world? Yeah you can store EU users' data
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by tdrp 6y ago
We had a non-tech lead at some point (although his title was something like development manager) and he would praise my coworker for how many check-ins he did. Except that coworker would do things like: 1- Copy-paste an entire class into a
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by tdrp 6y ago
It was horrifying to see how many config changes you have to do to basically beg facebook not to send back data to their server. Most of these were hidden in various corners of the documentation and I still suspect there's crap being s
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by tdrp 6y ago
They told us that explicitly. We had been using the URL-based login on the app (i.e. open a browser with the URL and use the redirect to continue logging in), for almost two years. Then about a year ago, they e-mailed us just before a holid
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by tdrp 6y ago
Definitely extreme - ideally I would want something like a "restraining order" against the disruptive user that legally compels them to no longer use the website. If they still break that, then probably fines+damages of some kind.
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by tdrp 6y ago
Thanks - I feel like there should be something to legally strong-arm banned users into staying away. CFAA is one of the most direct: “I have banned you from my site and you keep coming back so I will take you to court to make you stop”. F
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by tdrp 6y ago
It seems like any harassment complaint would have to be raised by the victims directly rather than by us, the service provider. In practice they just leave the site and never come back. So what would the recourse be in this case for a bad a
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by tdrp 6y ago
Thanks I agree. We thought the same and nowadays we look through the photo upload dates to get an estimate of when it was created. It was somewhat helpful.
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by tdrp 6y ago
I mean they would log in with FB, through a VPN, then verify a phone number which was usually some throwaway. I am not sure how we could be more strict short of asking all of our users for pictures of their IDs. We were explicit with the us
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by tdrp 6y ago
We had a bad user who we kept banning for harassing other users. He would come back over and over again, using different pictures, IPs, even throwaway phone numbers or FB accounts etc. We ended up stopping him by involving a lawyer who draf
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by tdrp 6y ago
For me it wasn't totalitarian but "corrupt beyond salvation" (think bottom 50 on corruption index). A friend of mine recently went back and lasted six months before he came back to the US - he opened a startup and had to deal

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